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mohamedkoubaa··on Check if a file was made with Claude
Can't they just store checksums of all their output
mohamedkoubaa··on European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
Rare AI slop use case
mohamedkoubaa··on Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
Sometimes they get it but don't know the recipe to cook it themselves so they get takeout (talent acquisition)
mohamedkoubaa··on What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022)
>We want to live in a hunter gatherer mode where we get to follow our curiosities and our ambitions and our vibes and our likes until it reaches the natural conclusion

We don't all want that.

mohamedkoubaa··on EVE Online moves to Python 3
Maybe the bank bailouts were a mistake
mohamedkoubaa··on "IT WoRKs BeTter in the App "
A lot are saying that they prefer websites over apps but at least apps can't force you to upgrade to the latest version while a website will always serve you the latest version. Ofc that doesn't address all the downsides of an app
mohamedkoubaa··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
Depends on whether the tests are general or if they give a different score for spatial, semantic, and episodic memory.
mohamedkoubaa··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
I didn't realize they were correlated. I have total visual and auditory aphantasia and can count childhood memories on one hand. But I have great semantic memory and could probably win a game of jeapordy.
mohamedkoubaa··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
Look up memory castles
mohamedkoubaa··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
Sometimes in the first few minutes after waking up I experience images though I wouldn't call them vivid
mohamedkoubaa··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
>unit-tested

Some of this is less to do with Claude vocabulary and more to do with the expectation that Claude justifies it's work. That expectation (probably) came from reinforcement learning.

mohamedkoubaa··on 507 Mechanical Movements
Now imagine if each of them got the ciechanow.ski treatment
mohamedkoubaa··on It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI
Brian, CTO complains that it's so hard for him to execute against the technical strategy communicated by that smart intern on the third day of his internship two years ago. Poor Brian.
mohamedkoubaa··on Tracking Costco gas prices
In the US there are structural reasons fuel shocks have less of an effect here
mohamedkoubaa··on Where did all the public bathrooms go?
Exactly and once you're in the asylum the doctors can lobotomize and drug you to the point of insanity. People used to abuse the system to get rid of family members they had an inheritance dispute with.
mohamedkoubaa··on Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
The people who swizzle registers on GPU drivers need that skill, and there's no evidence that they lost it. There's a reason why we use the stack metaphor for a programming ecosystem. You trust the lower layers below the one you work in.
mohamedkoubaa··on Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
Decades ago, enterprises said, "If you're writing assembly you're doing it wrong".

That led to a reduction in knowledge of assembly in the average programmer but the people who specialize in it haven't gotten any worse at it.

The result was a generation of programmers who make useful software while very few of them understand the machine they program. You could easily make either a positive or negative value judgement about that result.

mohamedkoubaa··on Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
The only reason to get a wifi 7 router is that it supports wifi 6 better than a wifi 6 router
mohamedkoubaa··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Life in Nauru today seems much worse than the colonial period
mohamedkoubaa··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Your line of argumentation asserts that freedom has increased over time with allowances for any form of subjugation by the government short of enslavement. I don't doubt that you're making a good faith argument, but it doesn't engage with the real problem of abuse of power and disenfranchisement of the people because no matter how bad it gets for the average citizen it will never be as bad as chattel slavery. It's hard to argue in good faith on a nuanced issue with someone who has a one liner mic drop response to everything.
mohamedkoubaa··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Income tax did not exist at the time of founding. The freedom to spend freely from the fruits of one's labor has been lost.
mohamedkoubaa··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Prior to the enclosure period of English common law, land was assumed to be available to the private use of government subjects. The American West was the same before it was swallowed by the US government. The current situation is provably less free along this dimension. You could argue that this is not important relative to other things (this is a value judgement), or that things done outside of the state are outside of the discussion (this is a a fallacy, a lot of things once outside of the state find themselves inside it today), or you could say that this does not account for intra-community conflict between settlers and natives (this is a straw man)
mohamedkoubaa··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Exactly. It is a high dimensional space and it depends which sample you select
mohamedkoubaa··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
>but the tick-tock has always ticked further towards a freer, more equal, and more equitable society.

This is a popular sentiment, not a statement of historical fact. Arguments both for and against this are credible.

mohamedkoubaa··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Exactly. Calling anything on an SSD permanent is criminal.
mohamedkoubaa··on Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times
Was your friend part of a union as well? If so, did they offer any protection at all?
mohamedkoubaa··on Mathematics in the Age of AI
What if the better routing leads to an outage that the AI can't explain or fix and all the humans who might have understood it were laid off or otherwise unavailable?
mohamedkoubaa··on Mathematics in the Age of AI
Ive wondered whether a possible outcome of LLM slop is a retvrn to oral wisdom traditions. Ironically that's the most anthropological form of understanding and pedagogy.
mohamedkoubaa··on Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries
There is no RAM shortage in Ba-Sing-Se
mohamedkoubaa··on Splitting a Git Commit
I think I'd rather keep my old school interactive rebase skills sharp for when I actually need it
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